Caught glimpses of him last year, he looked good, bit quicker than others around his age as far as I could tell, good action.

About time we started bringing on some homegrown seamers.

I think it's fair that Stuart Barnes did the chat on this as opposed to Robbo.

It's been pretty quiet all winter on social media from the club comparison to previous off seasons.

Called up by England Lions to tour Aus in January.

Goodness me another drop

96

Watched him up until lunch, he was on 34. Looked absolutely sublime to be honest.

Troughton has been Head Coach for us before hasn't he? 2018-2020?

Think DoC may suit him this time around.

Doesn't expand too much. Sort of insinuates Larsen has jumped before he got pushed. Links Troughton to the job though acknowledges he currently works as batting coach at Surrey. Nothing mentioned about Robinson at all.

Interestingly in the Cricketer article about the Latham signing it mentions about the Performance Review that the state of the often lifeless pitches Edgbaston for 4day cricket will come under scrutiny too. Its not a dig at Barwell or his team but anybody with eyes can see that low and slow getting lower and slower is very much a theme for our home games. That square is dead. Looking at investing more in hybrid pitches, this will be a good thing.

Don't think much of his slip fielding going off this Test!

Don't know of its been covered elsewhere but I seem to have a memory of Latham keeping wicket a bit at one point? I could be mistaken though.

Looks a decent signing. Definitely got the experience, he's done the gig before at a few counties, I seem to remember him doing well at Durham.

Availability a huge plus, especially in this day and age. As Paul alluded to though I think he'll be an odd pick in t20 cricket. Great if he plays the One Day Cup however.

Excellent to have a cricketer with such vast experience around the place.

Wouldn't be keen on him doing the captaincy, not that hes ever struck me as being a bad captain, just let him bat.

As a Bears fan who lives in the Solihull area I'm extremely grateful for us having no trip to Southampton, absolute nightmare from here. Shame no Taunton in CC, I've been loads though personally. Lancashire away at Liverpool is a lovely one, looking forward to Hove, Scarborough will be a treat, cant wait for that. 3 games at Rugby School again is a shame though.

Scarborough!

Notts at home and Hants at home?

Reports are that he's batting 3.

Jacob has been by Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL auction.

Presumably this means he misses the first 2 months of the English domestic season.

Can't find any start times for these games?

The one player we didn't want to lose as he's gonna be so hard to replace. Outstanding, underrated gloveman who always made tough runs. We always had half a chance with him in the side.

Terrible, terrible news.

Every year we seem to lose somebody significant/important whether that be a player(s) or coach. Been happening for ages now. Just no continuity.

When can we expect these? Think we got them mid/late Nov last year for 2024.

Terrific bloke

Taz is training with the England Test squad whilst on holiday in Pakistan.